Cotton - an almost primal memory of anyone who grew up surrounded by fields - is at its base a journey for the preservation of an ever-diminishing memory. The whiteness that surrounded her birthplace was like cotton wool wrapping a precious item in an attempt to protect it from harm. The significance of this white memory that follows her brought about a journey of preservation, which is also of farewell. Dagan captures monochrome-poetic photographs, which stem from a visual and emotional autobiographical memory and moves between motion and stagnation.

In her works, the elementary sense of purity of a childhood memory is constantly overshadowed by the morbidity and purity of death. Between these extremes is her sphere of action, where she attempts to preserve, wrap, and freeze this memory that shaped the process and the fashion of her work.

The project consists of a series of photographs stretching from a basic piece of white clothing to burial shrouds worn by the dead. Between these two, Dagan explores processes of freezing and defrosting a garment-body, within a bleached and illuminated space. A physical human presence does not exist in the photographs, but evidence of its existence, or rather, its inexistence, reinforces an enhances the sense of absence. The white color that dominates the photographs creates a pastoral and relaxed sense of closeness and at the same time alienation and unease. White has a key role in the photographs, creating a new alternative space, a moment before it disappears; as the final hold in time that would never return, a swan song to cotton, to time and to a dissolving reality.